GALION
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V11,
Page 411
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
GALION
, a See also:city of See also:Crawford See also:County, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., about 75 M
.
S.W. of See also:Cleveland
.
Pop
.
(1890) 6326; (1900) 7282 (703 See also:foreign-
See also:born); (1910) 7214
.
It is served by the Cleveland, See also:Cincinnati, See also:Chicago & St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, and the See also:Erie See also:railways, and by an interurban
electric railway
.
The city is about I165 ft. above See also:sea level, and has extensive railway shops (of the Erie railway) and manufactories of See also:brick and See also:tile machinery, carriages and wagons, and See also:grain and See also:seed cleaners
.
The See also:municipality owns and operates its electric-See also:lighting plant
.
Galion was laid out as a See also:town in 1831, was incorporated as a See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough in 184o, and was chartered as a city in 1878
.
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